Retail Stock Processor Hartlepool Superstore

Cancer Research UK; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Substantial retirement plan

Generous leave allowance

Discounts on travel to technology

Gym membership

Wellbeing support from Retail Trust

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a part-time Retail Stock Processor for the New Hartlepool Superstore to manage donated stock, rotate, price, steam and tag items while supporting the store team. This role emphasizes customer service and adherence to health and safety standards.

The position offers rota-based hours (30 per week), a generous benefits package, and opportunities to train colleagues and volunteers in stock processing.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a busy customer-facing environment.
• Adaptability to changing situations.
• A proactive mindset.
• The ability to manage your own workload and work independently and as part of a team.
• A positive approach to building relationships with community members.
• Flexibility; our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis.

Responsibilities

• Processing and looking after new and donated stock. This includes keeping on top of stock rotation and replenishment, pricing, steaming and tagging.
• Assisting the store team in achieving sales and fundraising targets.
• Supporting the training of colleagues and volunteers in stock processing.
• Ensuring standards of safeguarding, compliance, security and health and safety are followed.
• Using your customer service skills to make sure our customers and supporters feel welcome and appreciated.

Job description

Job details

• Retail Stock Processor £12.71 per hour plus benefits
• Reports to: Superstore manager
• Department: Trading
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Part time 30 hours per week
• Location: New Hartlepool Superstore
• Closing date: Sunday 18th October 2026 23:55
• Interviews will be held Wednesday 28th - 29th October with start dates from 11th November
• You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy.
• Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

What will I be doing?

• Processing and looking after new and donated stock. This includes keeping on top of stock rotation and replenishment, pricing, steaming and tagging.
• Assisting the store team in achieving sales and fundraising targets.
• Supporting the training of colleagues and volunteers in stock processing.
• Ensuring standards of safeguarding, compliance, security and health and safety are followed.
• Using your customer service skills to make sure our customers and supporters feel welcome and appreciated.

There will be a varied amount of manual handling and physical activity required within the day-to-day duties of the role.

What are you looking for?

• Experience working in a busy customer-facing environment.
• Adaptability to changing situations.
• A proactive mindset.
• The ability to manage your own workload and work independently and as part of a team.
• A positive approach to building relationships with community members.
• Flexibility; our retail teams cover the needs of their stores by working on a rota basis. Whilst a level of flexibility is needed to meet the needs of the business, we don’t forget that you have a life outside of work too.

What will I gain?

We make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

• Substantial retirement plan.
• A generous and flexible leave allowance.
• Discounts on anything from travel to technology.
• Gym membership.
• Much more.
• Our retail teams also have access to confidential wellbeing support from the Retail Trust.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented. We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen.

Please contact [e-mail] or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Our vision

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.

About the charity

We are the world's leading cancer charity, dedicated to saving and improving lives with our research. We work to reduce the impact of cancer on people's day-to-day lives through our research, influence and information. We are beating cancer - step by step, day by day. Our work means that people with cancer live better lives through earlier diagnosis and kinder, more effective treatments.

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